I agree that young adults are being treated as children by their parents far longer than they used to.
I can recall when I was a kid back in the 1940's, my sister and I would come home from grade school and cook our own supper because our father was still out in the field and our mother was off on an important errand of some sort. I was probably 8 or 9 and my sister 10 or 12 at the time. We thought nothing of it, that was just the way it was.
More recently, when my wife worked in Student Housing at the University of Nebraska, at the start of every fall semester she would have to teach a dozen or more freshmen students how to use a washer and do laundry. Here were 18 and 19 year olds who had never ever ran a load of clothes through a washer before.
Even our daughter, who has always had a self-sufficient streak, said halfway through her freshman year in college (in 1995) that it was an absolute crime how unprepared most of the girls in her dorm were to be on their own. She went through the same routine of showing other girls how to do laundry, sort clothes between colors and whites, etc.
It's a simple matter of parents abdicating their duties as parents. And some of the parents are pretty danged sorry examples themselves.
Our daughter attended, and graduated from, Nebraska Wesleyan University, a private Methodist school. During orientation for both parents and students at the start of her freshman year there was a an orientation session that was billed as a religious service. I dressed accordingly with a coat and tie.
I was appalled to see other fathers of students walk in wearing greasy baseball caps and T shirts with obnoxious slogans. And not bother to remove their caps during the service. With role models like that, it's no wonder some of our young folks are as screwed up as they are.
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